WSB Radio reports that high winds tore the roof off a building at Shorter University in the northwest Georgia city of Rome.

Scotty Hancock, director of the Floyd County Emergency Management Agency, tells the Rome News-Tribune the storm toppled 50 trees. CBS Atlanta reports that an employee of a small insurance office in Rome escaped serious injury when strong winds tossed debris onto her body. Beams and girders were all that remained of the building Friday morning.

Georgia Emergency Management Agency spokesman Ken Davis said two of the people hurt suffered cuts from flying glass in Rome. Details on other injuries were not immediately available.